PAnzA Presents
A Conversation with Helen Palmer
a professional development workshop
with
Helen Palmer
20 Nov 2025 at 7:30 pm
This workshop is open to registrations from:
- Psychosynthesis Guides (counsellors and psychotherapists) - in active practice or retired.
- PAnzA Members: Free
- Non-members: $40
Workshop Registration
Workshops are free for PAnzA members. If you are a member, please log in to register.
If you are not a PAnzA member, enter your email address and request registration.
(If you are unable to register as a non-member and you believe that you satisfy the 'Audience' criteria, please contact PAnzA)
Any questions about registering for this workshop?
Psychosynthesis maps and models are at the heart of our practice. What challenges and wonderings do you have about their application to the current range of client presenting issues, and to the sociopolitical contexts we are all navigating?
• How are you perceiving and engaging with Will?
• How are you meeting increased focus on identity (DSM diagnoses, neurodiversity, gender, intersectionality etc.)?
• What are you ‘growing’ in your supervisory relationship?
• How are you taking care of yourself?
• Is there something from your practice you’d like to bring forward for discussion in this practitioner community setting?
Please send notice of your questions / reflections to Helen ahead of time so she can get a feel for the range of interest. Send these by 12 November to:
Otherwise, your questions / reflections / listening ears and open-hearts can simply arrive on the night.
This is the final professional development event of 2025.
Please join us in community and for this great opportunity to share time with Helen.
Helen Palmer has a background in education. After some years in the UK she trained in psychosynthesis, and co-founded the Institute of Psychosynthesis NZ with her husband Peter Hubbard on their return to Aotearoa in 1986. The Institute closed in December 2018, after 32 years of offering psychosynthesis for self-development, as well as professional training for counsellors and psychotherapists. During this time she also completed a law degree, became an ordained Interfaith minister and marriage celebrant, and then wrote a Master’s thesis on Psychosynthesis in the South Pacific (awarded with Distinction) from Middlesex. It won the Emma Stavrou Thesis award and was then published as a Monograph by the London Institute of Psychosynthesis. Helen and Peter’s commitment to developing a psychotherapeutic understanding that is respectful of Māori cosmology and identity was deeply supported by their growing relationship with Joe Turner, who became the Institute’s kaumatua in 1996 until his death in 2014. Helen has been a member of NZAP since 1991, is a registered psychotherapist, and a Fellow of PAnzA. She is a Director of Psychosynthesis Education and Research. She has a private practice as a psychotherapist and as a supervisor. She is interested in the intergenerational transmission of resilience as well as trauma, which began when working with many cultural backgrounds in London. She is also following the emerging conversations about gender, identity and sexuality.